The engineers over at Toshiba have announced the first 250GB 1.8″ hard drives:
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2007– Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced expansion of its market-leading 1.8-inch lineup with the MKxx29GSG series which include three new high-capacity, high performance Serial ATA HDDs [...]

Today’s announcement by Toshiba that they will phase out production of HD-DVD players effectively puts an end to the competition between the two hi-definition formats:
“We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called ‘next-generation format war’ and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop,” said Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of [...]